Robert Millard

This guide outlines an entire Optics Unit starting with properties of light, reflections, refraction, and lenses. The guide comes with investigation instructions for students and teacher versions, worksheets, handouts and answer keys for 30 different activities.

This guide explores using Exploration Drill Core, both real and simulated to teach a wide variety of concepts from Early Elementary to Highschool. It is a fantastic jumping point to using math skills including estimating, measuring, data collection and analysis, central tendency, graphing, patterning, as well as scientific concepts including rocks, minerals, careers, resource extraction, as well as general problems solving. Included are 28 activities that are easily adjustable to use for dev

This guide provides activities, investigations and worksheets related to the Grade 9 and 10 Science program in Ontario where Earth sciences can be inserted to fit the curriculum. It breaks down Earth science opportunities and approaches for each of the 4 strands, of Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Climate Change.

This activity is a collection of 13 different geometric nets for students to cut out, fold and put together. Each one showcases a particular structure for a mineral's crystal structure but also a 3D geometric shape. This activity has place in any mineral lesson or any lesson involving 3D shapes, faces, edges, surface area, or composite shapes.

This file is a collection of 17 different nets representing different minerals. Each net takes up a full 8 1/2" x 11" page. Print off the nets, have the students cut out and then construct the nets into geometric shapes. Great addition for lessons looking at mineral properties in science class or composite geometric shapes in math class.

This 47 slide Power-Point presentation covers the basics of what is an eclipse, what are the different types of eclipses, the hazards of viewing the Sun at anytime, and how to view the Sun Safely. The PPT includes limited speaking notes to help guide the presenter through the slideshow.

This investigation simulates the Earth, Moon, Sun relationship to create a scaled model Solar and Lunar Eclipses. This resource includes a background for the Teacher, Visual representations for the different types of Eclipses, Instructions for the investigation and worksheet for students to fill in as they complete the activity

This student investigation or teacher demonstration can be used to explore the similarity and differences between Transits, Occultations and Eclipses.